Fondare 459 Risultati per: Fortified Cities
At that time they fortified Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers round about, to keep the Gentiles from coming and trampling them down as they had done before. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
And he stationed a garrison there to hold it. He also fortified Beth-zur, so that the people might have a stronghold that faced Idumea. (1 Maccabees 4, 61)
"Many of them have been shut up in Bozrah and Bosor, in Alema and Chaspho, Maked and Carnaim" -- all these cities were strong and large-- (1 Maccabees 5, 26)
"and some have been shut up in the other cities of Gilead; the enemy are getting ready to attack the strongholds tomorrow and take and destroy all these men in one day." (1 Maccabees 5, 27)
From there he marched on and took Chaspho, Maked, and Bosor, and the other cities of Gilead. (1 Maccabees 5, 36)
But Judas turned aside to Azotus in the land of the Philistines; he tore down their altars, and the graven images of their gods he burned with fire; he plundered the cities and returned to the land of Judah. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
And behold, today they have encamped against the citadel in Jerusalem to take it; they have fortified both the sanctuary and Beth-zur; (1 Maccabees 6, 26)
Bacchides then returned to Jerusalem and built strong cities in Judea: the fortress in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Beth-horon, and Bethel, and Timnath, and Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars. (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
He also fortified the city of Beth-zur, and Gazara, and the citadel, and in them he put troops and stores of food. (1 Maccabees 9, 52)
Then Jonathan with his men, and Simon, withdrew to Bethbasi in the wilderness; he rebuilt the parts of it that had been demolished, and they fortified it. (1 Maccabees 9, 62)
If you now have confidence in your forces, come down to the plain to meet us, and let us match strength with each other there, for I have with me the power of the cities. (1 Maccabees 10, 71)
He set out for Syria with peaceable words, and the people of the cities opened their gates to him and went to meet him, for Alexander the king had commanded them to meet him, since he was Alexander's father-in-law. (1 Maccabees 11, 2)
